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| The Pendragon Adventure | |
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 First, second, and third installments along with the box set casing. |
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| 'The Merchant of Death, The Lost City of Faar, The Never War, The Reality Bug , Black Water, The Rivers of Zadaa, The Quillan Games, The Pilgrims of Rayne, Raven Rise, and The Soldiers of Halla. | |
| Author | D.J. MacHale |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Young Adult, Fantasy, Science fiction novels |
| Publisher | Aladdin Paperbacks |
| Published | 2002-2009 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
The Pendragon Adventure is a young adult series of fantasy novels by D. J. MacHale. They follow the chronicles of Bobby Pendragon, a teenager who discovers that he, as well as his two best friends, Mark Dimond and Courtney Chetwynde, must try to save the universe. Each book switches between the first-person perspective of Bobby's journals and third-person narratives of other prominent characters.
The first book, The Merchant of Death, was originally published in 2002 by Aladdin Paperbacks. The series has ten books: The Merchant of Death, The Lost City of Faar, The Never War, The Reality Bug , Black Water, The Rivers of Zadaa, The Quillan Games, The Pilgrims of Rayne, Raven Rise, and The Soldiers of Halla.
On his official site, MacHale stated that he had finished the first draft of the last book, and said it would be a "killer finale." It was released on May 12, 2009. He also announced that the first graphic novel based on the Pendragon series would be released around the time of the ninth book, and that a short series of books meant to be companions to the series will be released, with the release of the first companion book scheduled for before the release of book ten.
The site went down for approximately two days starting the 23rd of November until the 25th of November, the day the Pendragon: Before the War's third and final cover was due to be revealed.[1]
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Travelers
A Traveler is an individual originating from one of ten territories, chosen to prevent the territory from falling into chaos. They are the only ones who know of the existence of flumes, other than their aides, known as "acolytes". Travelers are created by the spirits of Solara in order to lead mankind into the positive side of the future. Each Traveler trains and introduces their successor to his or her new life. When a person accepts that they are a Traveler, all traces of that person's existence disappear, including relatives (only direct family members are mentioned as disappearing), except in the memories of those who knew that family or person. The family members of a Traveler go to the outskirts of Halla, known as Solara, where they are spirits there.
There is only one Traveler from each territory; however, at a time when there are two Travelers, the first Traveler will typically die shortly afterwards. The first Traveler, however, is allowed a certain amount of time (sometimes) in which to train the new Traveler in ways of judgment and responsibility.
Every Traveler has special abilities. Many of the Travelers have demonstrated some of the following abilities at one point or another in the novels:
- The power of persuasion;
- The ability to hear all speech and read all forms of writing as their own language, although words that describe territory-exclusive items do not change (Omnilinguality);
- Remarkable powers of recovery, many times faster than normal people;
- The ability to heal another Traveler or bring them back to life (occasionally) through sheer force of will;
- The apparent ability to read the minds of those around them (only Press Tilton, Osa, and Saint Dane have exercised this "ability" so far - occasionally other Travelers and sometimes even acolytes seem to know exactly what Bobby is thinking).
- The ability to transform to anything living being(only Saint Dane and Nevva are able to do this)
Travelers are also able to shapeshift into any living thing or nonliving (only people (including klees) and a raven are used in the series as of book 9, in 10 They are shown to be able to turn to smoke) and (apparently) control the timing of the flumes, though only Saint Dane and Nevva Winter are mentioned to have this ability until book 10 in which it is found that all travelers may use this ability at will but it as a result some of the energy from solara is drained. In Raven Rise, Alexander Naymeer, an unintended Traveler, elevated to power by Nevva Winter, has the ability to activate the flume at any place and allow ordinary people to travel between territories. He can also project images of Halla from his ring. In The Soldiers of Halla, all of the Travelers acquired and used this ability.
In The Quillan Games, Saint Dane claims that all Travelers are illusions, using this to explain their abilities as a lack of the limitations extant upon other people.
In Raven Rise, all the Travelers appeared in the same unknown area, and rather than dying, they all were brought back to "life" to change what had happened. This area is Solara were the spirits of beings reside after death.
In The Soldiers of Halla, all the Travelers are alive and make an appearance, though only the new generation of Travelers (Bobby, Elli, Loor, Spader, Kasha, Patrick, Gunny, Siry, Aja, and Alder) play a significant role. All the past Travelers previously mentioned appear as well (Osa, Benn Spader, Seegen, and Uncle Press were the ones named).
List of Travelers
Denduron: Alder
Cloral: Vo Spader
First Earth: Vincent "Gunny" Van Dyke
Second Earth: Bobby Pendragon
Third Earth: Patrick Mac
Veelox: Aja Killian
Eelong: Kasha
Zadaa: Loor
Quillan: Elli Winter
Ibara: Siry Remudi
At the end of Raven Rise, the travelers' spirits return to existence.
List of Acolytes
Denduron: <Unnamed Milago Widow>
Cloral: Wu Yenza, Spader's best friend and Chief Aquaneer
First Earth: Douglas "Dodger", a bellhop who works with Gunny
Second Earth: Courtney Chetwynde and Mark Dimond; formerly Tom Dorney (Press's acolyte, now retired)
Third Earth: Jay
Veelox: Evangeline, Aja's "Aunt"
Eelong: Boon, Kasha's friend; formerly Yorn (Seegen's Acolyte, deceased)
Zadaa: Saangi, Loor's sister
Quillan: None
Ibara: Unknown
Status of the Territories
This is the current status of the territories in the battle for Halla, as of Raven Rise.
- Denduron - Traveler Victory*
- Cloral - Traveler Victory*
- First Earth - Traveler Victory*
- Veelox - Traveler Loss
- Eelong - Traveler Victory
- Zadaa - Traveler Victory*
- Quillan - Traveler Loss
- Ibara - Traveler Victory*
- Second Earth - Traveler Loss
- Third Earth - Traveler Victory
All the territories were considered "won" at the end of Soldiers of Halla with the death of Saint Dane and the triumph of the positive side of Solara.
- An * indicates a reversal of fortune in the last two novels.
References
- ^ "Pendragon Site Down". Forum Topic. D.J. MacHale. http://www.thependragonadventure.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6810. Retrieved 2008-12-29.
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